My connections to Play

My connections to Play

Pet rocks were my childhood best friends. They were not my only friends but a great contributor. I lived in the country and needless to say, I didn’t have much to do. My parents didn’t allow television in my home so my selections of activities were limited. My best friend lived a couple of doors down and we would search the gravel walk way to find the perfect rocks to add to our collection. We had a museum of rocks by the time I was 12.

My second connection to play within a childhood memory would have to be skating around the house pretending I owned an indoor restaurant. In my restaurant we skated to serve food to our guest. I never knew I would one day grow to dislike serving food on skates. I worked at sonic for about two years in high school. I fell so many times.

I included a few quotes because I found so many quotes that described my childhood play so well. My parents were old fashioned they believed in letting me be who I wanted to be as crazy as it may be. I find that as a parent I tend to correct behavior too much. In doing this assignment it reminded me how free spirited I was as a child and made me realize that I tend to try to stop my children when they do some of the same things. I guess we get so use to trying to keep order and make sure that they are safe that we forget that some of these same things have made us who we are today. I loved to dress up prissy and wear high heels while running thru the garden and rolling in mud. I would come in the house and have to strip down and take a bath. All of my friends enjoyed coming to my house because we didn’t have to choose one toy at a time we could just play freely and clean up later. As a parent I try to keep everything and order and clean. Now don’t get me wrong I love to play and have fun but I feel that I may have forgotten how great it felt to just create something out of nothing. For all that goes to let the kids dress up nice and run in mud.

            I like to make fun and games out of everything. I almost feel that I try to ensure that there is something to do and create out of everything to the extent that I leave little for the imagination. I know as a child I had a great imagination and I see it in my children as well. From the pet rocks, flower gardens, dress up flings, and sleep overs my life was always interesting.